Ha! You really are a man on a mission. Props for that! Luckily I befriended someone on Instagram a couple of years ago who has a smallholding near my farmland and...she keeps bee's! She's a novice but I reckon by the time I get there she'll know enough to help a newbie out.

Good plan on stocking up and prepping. I really need to do that too; it's something I aspire to but never get around to actually doing.